Gosh, this thread is over 14 years old, but quitting Dragon, which is a memory hog and which can make Access behave awfully slow, is important.

If you do a <Ctrl><Alt><Del > you will find 6 Dragon-related processes active with DNS. If you run a HijackThis app (yeah, still runs in Win 11), you can see the actual exe files that are active. Knowing this, you can create a *.bat file that can be called up from MS Access....